Cancer and Young Adult Literature
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Description
This collection specifically and solely focuses on Young Adult literature texts where cancer plays a prominent role, including widely-read texts like John Green's The Fault in Our Stars, Nicholas Sparks' A Walk to Remember, and Jesse Andrews' Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. The chapters present a variety of arguments, each developing a novel investigation into how these stories explore the effects cancer has on a person, a family, or on a relationship. As scientific studies continue to devlop new understandings of the biology behind cancer, and new sociological studies continue to uncover how a cancer diagnosis impacts the fabric of our culture(s), these collected essays continue to investigate how authors have woven cancer into the stories we write for young people. A number of distinct avenues are taken here, arguing for new approaches in crafting narrative, deeper appreciation for family support networks (or their absence), and what literary criticism can uncover when applied to cancer narratives.
Table of Contents
Sarah Minslow
Chapter 2: The Wilting Branch: The Effects of Cancer on the Family Unit
Abigail Bailey
Chapter 3: A Matter of Perspectives: How Pediatric Patients and Parents Cope with Cancer and Death in Ways to Live Forever and Before I Die
Alessia Silvestrin
Chapter 4: Last Things: Sick Protagonists' Bucket Lists
Jennifer Marchant
Chapter 5: Grounded in Fantasy or Reality: Comparing real-life accounts of adolescent cancer with fictional themes of experience in popular YA texts.
Katie Doering
Chapter 6: “Oddest and Most Hopeless:” Leukemia, the YA Cancer Narrative, and Writing for Young Adults
Stephen M. Zimmerly
Chapter 7: Teenage Hospital Romance among the Cancerously Ill in Cellular and Too Young to Die
Arka De Barman
Chapter 8: EcoGothic and Bodily Decay in the Film Adaptations of A Walk to Remember (2002), Now is Good (2012), The Fault in Our Stars (2014), Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015), and Clouds (2020)
Jesse Bair
Product details
| Published | Jul 23 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 188 |
| ISBN | 9781666927580 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Dimensions | 229 x 152 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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